Unsung Heroes

March 8, 2007

On the 12th of December I was arrested along with 300 others at
parliament...It was an incredible thing to see a U.S.
Embassy vehicle parked right there where we were seated on the ground
under arrest. One police official after another tried to get the
Americans to move but they just kept sitting there saying, 'we are just
here to observe the process.' That gave us a lot of
courage. We had been brutally beaten just two weeks
before at a demonstration and we just needed to know that someone was
watching out for us this time around. And at the demonstration at
parliament, the police allowed us walk away free, which had never
happened before.